Hogwarts on Earth
When I started my Master’s, I basically saw it as a way to live abroad for a while, experience new cultures, and meet new people. It has been all that and much more!
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Let small girls play with big boy tools
When Kasper invited me over to help with building stage decor and said that my task would be playing around with a jigsaw, I had pictured sitting on a clean floor, putting together nice puzzle pieces. You can only imagine my surprise when I was handed a humongous wooden board and an actual power tool. Plus, when we ended, the floor was far from clean.
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Dilemmas in HCI
The domain of Human Computer Interaction is riddled with dilemmas affecting both users and designers. Let some of these problems be presented as follows.
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Why I won’t tell people to “look it up” anymore
Yesterday, somebody asked me what a hermit crab is. I told them to look it up.
Today, in a group chat full of IT people, I asked what I should know if I wanted to create my own web page. They told me to look it up.
In both of these scenarios, those who had been asked knew the answer but refused to share it. Instead, the enquirer was directed to the vast search space of the Internet. On their own. With no support.
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